1B5: Engine Room
Breakers (third from the
bottom, left row and third from
the top, middle row) in the
ship's DC power panel on the
port side of the helm, and
switches inside and to the left
of the door from the
companionway to the engine
room turn on the engine room
lighting.
The engine room
aboard Hele Mai is accessed
from the aft end of the guest
stateroom. There is adequate
headroom to allow easy
access throughout, and space
is sufficient to get around the
main engines.
The twin, turbocharged John Deere four-stroke
Diesel engines develop 135 horsepower each (maximum)
and drive the vessel via standard shaft arrangements on
each side of the vessel's centerline. The engine starting
and house batteries are outboard and aft of each engine.
The port engine has the stabilizers’ hydraulic pump.
Among the numerous units and systems in the
engine room are Flo-Jet fresh and sea water pumps, an
oil-change system, fuel manifold, sight gauges on the fuel
tanks, dual fuel filters for the main engines and a single
filter for the genset, a hot water heater, dripless shaft
seals, starting, generator and house batteries, sea valves,
sea water strainers, and the watermaker.
At the aft end of the engine room is a Westerbeke
generator yielding 10,000 watts of 230/120 volts AC.
Fuel for the engines and generator is 800 gallons in
six tanks, 400 per side in a 50 gallon lazarette tank, a 100
gallon engine room aft tank, and a 250 gallon engine room
forward tank. A fuel manifold permits tank selection to use
fuel as desired as well as provide for trimming the vessel
(see "Fuel System" , 4.32 for a discussion of fuel
management.)
This is truly a professional engine room up to the high standard of the vessel!
Looking from the forward end of the engine room to aft. Engines in the foreground, door to
lazarette in distance.
Guest stateroom’s door to engine room.
The John Deere 4045 TFM Engine is a quiet modern,
fuel-efficient design.
Section 1B3: Gen'l Description - Engine Room 1.11
